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Every day the Fintech Nexus News team writes original stories from around the world, and we archive them chronologically on this category landing page.

Fintech Nexus Newsletter

·Mar. 20, 2024

Fintech Nexus Newsletter (March 20, 2024): BlackRock partners with Securitize to create tokenized fund

The world's largest asset manager continues to embrace crypto. Yesterday, it was revealed (here is the SEC filing) that BlackRock has created a fund called the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund that will be launched in partnership with Securitize.

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·Mar. 19, 2024

How AI Can Help Americans Achieve Financial Freedom in 2024

It’s impossible to escape a headline about generative AI these days, with many business leaders opining on its potential either to exponentially boost productivity or to destroy our workforce as we know it. Yet too few thought leaders have pointed to how generative AI can be harnessed to support everyday people in their journey to financial independence – especially the millions of Americans currently living paycheck to paycheck in an unusually shaky economy.

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Fintech Nexus Newsletter

·Mar. 19, 2024

Fintech Nexus Newsletter (March 19, 2024): Galileo beefs up it BNPL offering for banks and fintechs

BNPL is showing no signs of slowing down. Consumers love this fintech innovation and now everyone seems to want in on the action.

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Guest Post

·Mar. 18, 2024

Top tips for businesses considering Banking-as-a-Service

Despite regulatory concerns banking-as-a-service continues to grow in popularity. Here are three tips for any business considering going the BaaS route.

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Fintech Nexus Newsletter

·Mar. 18, 2024

Fintech Nexus Newsletter (March 18, 2024): Figure launches a blockchain-native “exchange for everything”

When I first chatted with Mike Cagney back in 2011, when he was CEO of SoFi, it was clear he had big goals. His second act in fintech, Figure, quickly became a leader in home equity lending with all loans originated and processed through blockchain technology.

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·Mar. 18, 2024

How technology is improving compliance

Companies like Hummingbird and Babel Street are successfully applying new technologies to improve the efficiency of long-cumbersome aspects of compliance.

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Fintech Nexus Newsletter

·Mar. 15, 2024

Fintech Nexus Newsletter (March 15, 2024): TransUnion launches OneTru, an AI-powered data analytics platform

TransUnion, one of the big three credit bureaus, has launched a new data analytics platform called OneTru. The new platform will offer banks and fintechs AI and ML tools for addressing a variety of credit, anti-fraud and marketing needs.

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Banking

·Mar. 15, 2024

Could AI have stopped the SVB crash?

Could AI have prevented the SVB crisis? Maybe not completely, but consumer sentiment analysis could have dramatically reduced its impact.

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Fintech Nexus Newsletter

·Mar. 14, 2024

Fintech Nexus Newsletter (March 14, 2024): Two fintechs are thriving one year on from the SVB crisis

This week marks one year since many fintechs thought their world was ending. Almost every venture-backed fintech company banked with Silicon Valley Bank and for three harrowing days last March, many wondered if all their non-FDIC-insured money sitting at Silicon Valley Bank would be safe.

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